Bill Gates is working with his former chief technology officer turned IP collector Nathan Myhrvold to register patents in a way that could help Microsoft monetize the internet.
TechDirt has uncovered that Bill Gates is named as an inventor on nine patents registered with a company called Searete since he stepped down from day-to …

MS to sue Gates?

>"Gates is also named on a further two Searete patents pre-dating his Microsoft departure."

Of course, any *other* employee of MS who was discovered to have been working for a competitor in their own time would be sued for breach of the non-compete clause in their contract of employment, and MS would also attempt to assert ownership of the patents (which, as is common in IT industry employment contracts, belong to your employer regardless of whether you work for and submit them on your own time or the firm's).

quidquid it est, timeo danaos et dona ferentes

@Volker

You were doing really well with your quotation of the original Latin phrase that inspired the English saying "Beware Greeks bearing gifts", but then you totally blew it with your reference to Julius Caesar, who neither had any involvement with the Trojan wars, nor was the author of Virgil's Aeneid. (Hint: *Virgil's* Aeneid; the clue is in the name).